Improvement in water-elevators



J. M. BAIN.

WATER-ELEvATon.

' Patented Aug. Z9, 1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. BAIN, OF HIGHLAND, (SAGO P. 0.,) OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-ELEVATORS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent'No. 181,551, dated August 29, 1876; application tiled February 4, 1876.

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'Said apparatus consists of buckets attached to a .rope by which they are lowered into and velevated from the water-source, and are then conveyed by the said rope, drawing a carriage over a wire tramway to the receiving places, and are there emptied by a tripping device opening a valve in the bottom ot' the buckets, the said rope being attached to and operated by a windlass at the said receiving places, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention. A is a post, which should be firmly set in the ground beside the well, spring, or stream. B is 'a yoke, fixed to the said post so as to be over the well, in which the carriage O rests while the bucket is being lowered into and raised from the well. From the two lower arms of the said yoke extend wires D D, which are supported at intervals by posts having arms E on their tops for that purpose, said wires reaching to and secured at the receiving place, these wires forming the tracks on which the carriages G travel. The carriage C consists 0f a frame made of bar-iron, having two grooved wheels, c c, which ride upon the wire D. The joints of said frame are loose, so as to allow the carriage to readily conform to the curvature of the track. On the lower bar of the carriage are attached two small pulleys, f f, and a hook, g. A rope, H, is attached to the bucket Gr and passes over the pulleys f f on the carriage and the pulley c' under the bail of the bucket, thence upward to the house through the wall, and is there attached to a drum and windlass, J, and may have a second carriage and bucket attached at its other end, so that while one bucket is traveling toward the house the other is traveling back to the well. Thus one carriage and bucket will compensate for the weight of the other. At the side of the'house, immediately over a trough, K, is placed a right-angled tilting-lever, L, suspended at the angle in such a manner that when the carriage and bucket arrive at the emptyingplace the carriage strikes against-the upper arm of the lever, causing the lower arm thereof to lift the valve in the bottom of the bucket, and thus discharge its contents into the trough K, from which it may be conducted by a pipe to a receptacle inside of the house. Y

At one of the intermediate posts may be arranged a tilting-lever, which can be thrown into position, when desired, for emptying the buckets into a trough for watering cattle.

The mode of operating this apparatus is as follows:l In winding the rope the bucket at the well is elevated thereby until it reaches the carriage,whenA the carriage is then drawn upward along the wire track, the hook g catching in the bail, and holds the bucket suspended therein until it arrives back again at the 'yoke B, which, being set on the post at a considerable pitch, causes the carriage to tilt over sufiiciently to release the bucket from the hook.

This apparatus combines simplicity and durability, beingv constructed almost entirely of iron, is not liable to warp or get out of order, and the carriages, running on a single track, are not liable to get oftl by reason of sagging or other inequalities thereof.

Having described my invention, I claiml. In a water-elevator, having a tramway over which the water is Vcarried in buckets, the yoke B, located over the source of watersnpply and adapted to receive and tilt the bucket-carriage, thereby depositing said bucket in the well or other water source, substantially as described.

2. The carriage C, provided with a hook, g, in combination with the yoke B, cord H, and bucket Gr, whereby said bucket is automatically connected with and disconnected from said hook, substantially as shown and described.

f J. M. BAIN.

Witnesses:

` J oHN BELL,

WLLLIAM T. SMITH. 

